When a man resists sin on human motive only, he will not hold out long. - Daniel H. Wilson

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I could have stopped it after they paid me the $50,000. I wouldn't even have had to go on to do more than I already had: just the double agents' names that I gave.

Daniel H. Wilson

When a man resists sin on human motive only, he will not hold out long.

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